Rian Johnson defends ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ ‘slightly silly humor’ – Watch

By Rian Johnson war of stars Movie The Last Jedi was released in 2017, debuted as a critically acclaimed blockbuster, was nominated for four Academy Awards and grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide. However, die-hard fans of the franchise took offense to the title and were very vocal about their issues with everything from the plot to the tone.

Having infiltrated public discourse everywhere The Last Jedi Several times in the five years since, Johnson has spoken again about his intentions for the film and the thinking behind it – this time in a video interview with GQ highlighting his entire filmography, which you can read above.

Johnson notes that some had a core problem The Last Jedi was the belief that the use of humor has no place in the war of stars Kanon while also expressing his feeling that this perspective is out of place. “For me everything is in the film war of starsand everything in the film I can trace back to in a deep, deep way war of stars is for me,” he says. “And I know that everyone has a different opinion. I know there is war of stars Fans who sort of think so war of stars was serious business like that Batman movies or something.”

The filmmaker offers his counterargument regarding franchise creator George Lucas’ choices in his original trilogy, which included light as a counterbalance to darkness. That’s what he says when he sees him for the first time Reich strikes back as a child, “it had such a deep, profound impact on me because it was terrifying because I was just young enough not to experience it as a spectator. war of stars film, but to make it feel too real. But for Johnson who saw the following entry Return of the Jedi At “just the right age in the theater,” the experience inherent in this film was quite different.

“Anyone who finds a bit of silly humor has no place in it war of stars Universe, I don’t know if they saw it Return of the Jedi. There’s literally a scene where Han Solo is like a cartoon, tied to a pole and a torch is brought past him to light the fire to cook him,” says Johnson, referring to the character’s crazy nature, to rub his cheeks around the flame. “Even in the first film, they find themselves in the heart of the Death Star trying to take this desperate risk to get out with their lives and save the princess where they pretend that Chewbacca is their prisoner. The small Imperial droid steps forward, Chewbacca yells at him, and the droid, like a frightened dog, [makes a silly, scared sound and flees].”

That “slightly self-aware element of light-hearted humor,” Johnson continues, “is something that’s integral to war of stars. That’s not all, and we start very seriously [The Last Jedi], also. And I think that brutal balance of those two things is part of it war of stars.”

Johnson recently wrote and directed the screenplay Glass Onion: A Mystery of Blades – a sequel to his award-winning, award-winning whodunit knife out – which is released on Netflix on Friday, December 23 and opens a month earlier in around 600 theaters. While the filmmaker has committed to writing another trilogy in 2017 war of stars Movies, and at least the first title in them, when we will see those movies, remains unclear.